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17th St. in Washington, and his strong interest in current entomological 

 events, recounting many of his comments. The number of melanic forms of 

 Coccinellidae from the northern boundary at Alaska, the changes in the fauna 

 of Phoenix, Ariz., due to irrigation, and of the Florida Keys, due to commer- 

 cial improvements, the difficulty of collecting at Lake Superior except on the 

 beach, the damage to entomological collections from unfavorable environments, 

 the praisworthy tendency of modern writers to define genera more accurately, 

 and the lamentable tendency of some to exalt type specimens at the expense of 

 minuteness in description, were some of the topics discussed. The resemblance 

 between Droiiiiiis atriceps, of which the type came from Bayou Sara, Louisi- 

 ana, and additional specimens from Virginia Beach, and Demetrius atricapillus, 

 as noted by Leconte (Trans. Am. Ent. See, VIII, 1880, p. 164) was particu- 

 larly mentioned ; and the admirable work of Adam Boving and others, espe- 

 cially Hyslop and Keakirt in tracing the biological history of obscure species 

 received the highest praise. Mr. Sherman closed his remarks with some ref- 

 erences to the disposal of the Asa Fitch collection and accompanying note 

 books. 



Meeting of May 4, 1915, 



A regular meeting of the New York Entomological Society was held May 

 4, 1915, at 8:15 P. M., in the American Museum of Natural History, Vice- 

 President H. G. Barber in the chair, with fourteen members and one visitor 

 present. 



The Curator reported the donation to the local collection of Hylecoetus 

 lugubris Say, from Mr. R. P. Dow, the specimen having been caught April 18 

 at Beaver Swamp, near Coytesville, N. J., also thirty-one species from Mr. 

 Leng. 



Mr. Leng read from Prof. Bradley's letters the proposed itinerary of the 

 mounted by Mr. Wunder and presented the manuscript of Mrs. Annie Trum- 

 bull Slosson's " A Few Memories " for publication in the Journal. 



Mr. Schaeffer exhibited Eupsalis minuta and the allied forms lecontei and 

 trip to the western part of the State in June. Mr. Davis showed photographs 

 sallei described by Power, stating that the first seemed northern in distribu- 

 tion, the second southern, while both were very close to the typical form. His 

 remarks will be printed in the Journal. 



Mr. Engelhardt, under the title " Noctuidze collected on Willow Bloom " 

 spoke of the various methods he had employed in early spring collecting, the 

 numbers in which some species had unexpectedly been obtained and particularly 

 of some of the rarities included in the catch. He said that the electric lights, 

 especially in country districts were productive ; the running sap of tapped 

 sugar maples, also birches and slippery elms, was also very attractive, clouds 

 of moths rising on occasions from the natural bait offered by the sap ; the 

 beating of branches, to which last year's leaves still clung, into the umbrella 

 was a third method which was more satisfactory in the rare species it yielded 

 than in the number of specimens ; but best of all he considered the visitation 

 at night with a lantern of the Willow Bloom, or in its absence of other early 



